Internal Medicine: Open Access
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Department of Neurosurgery, San Ignacio University Hospital, Pontifical Javierian University, Bogotá, Colombia

Biography

Doctor Juan David Urazá Murcia works in the Department of Neurosurgery, San Ignacio University Hospital, Pontifical Javierian University, Bogotá, Colombia is a well-known researcher in the field of Public Health. One of his renowned works is the Management of Discogenic Lumbar Pain with Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET).

Publications

• Review Article   
  Management of Discogenic Lumbar Pain with Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
  Author(s): Juan David Urazá Murcia*
  
  Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of intradiscal electrothermal therapy in treating discogenic low back pain. Methods: Using three data bases (PubMed, Cochrane and Scopus) we searched for clinical studies evaluating non-operative methods of treating discogenic back pain that were published between 2004-2012. Only systematic reviews and meta-analysis were included. Inclusion criteria: included if they met the following inclusion criteria: patients were at least 18 years of age; they were written in English and involved patients with chronic non-malignant pain who had never been surgical managed, after removal of duplicate citations only 4 articles were selected. Results: The two systematic reviews and two meta-analyzes whose objective were to establish the IDET roll in the improvement of discogenic pain, did no.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2165-8048.19.9.320

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